Welcome everyone! Would love to see this community on Lemmy take off.

Drop a hello, send over suggestions, tell us what you’re hella excited about.

  • Huntr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hello world! My first post ever on Lemmy. Was hoping to see a bay area community here and looks like this is something at least. Now to hope it grows :)

  • dan@upvote.au
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    1 year ago

    Reddit had separate bayarea and sanfrancisco subreddits, where most of the posts about San Francisco specifically would go to the sanfrancisco subreddit rather than the bayarea one. Should we do the same thing here?

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It wasn’t just San Francisco that had a subreddit. Most of the cities did. I spent a lot of time in the Oakland and Santa Rosa subs.

  • zkikiz
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    1 year ago

    Hey, I’m one of the mods of r/SantaRosa and we’re planning next steps. I think users would have more confidence switching if they knew the same people (generally) were involved. Would you like to talk about joining forces to build up the Bay Area community on Lemmy?

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I’m excited to see how “POV pushers” vs mod censorship works out. One of the big problems I saw on reddit, ( especially /r/Oakland) was outsiders pushing a negative POV and mods reacting by censoring all posts with the same POV.

    I don’t want the place overrun by Texas MAGAs, but when local crime posts are censored because it pushes a POV the mod doesn’t like, it destroys trust in the entire sub.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I wonder what the vibe for this sub will evolve into. I feel like r/bayarea often felt like a crabby person on Nextdoor. People fixated on negative stuff and not the cool things that are all around us.

    • Slay Puree@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      Would love to see more awesome content about our area that highlights cool shit. That being said, while I don’t care for fixating, I don’t mind honest posts.